If you don't want to be late, enumerate: Unpacking reduces the planning fallacy

By Justin Kruger, M. Evans. 2004

213 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/67aa82059dafc832f93ad73057fc061ba1487823

How researchers see this paper

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In Applied Psychology

1. John G. Lynch
2. Gal Zauberman
3. Klaus Fiedler

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Gal Zauberman
2. Klaus Fiedler

In General Decision Sciences

1. John G. Lynch
2. Gal Zauberman
3. Klaus Fiedler
4. Oleg Urminsky
5. Julián Villanueva
6. Dominique M. Hanssens
7. Kentaro Fujita

Citations in the corpus

• Construal Level Theory as an Integrative Framework for Behavioral Decision-Making Research and Consumer Psychology (2007, background): “As Kruger and Evans (2004) have shown, zooming-in and unpacking a future project may reduce the planning fallacy (Buehler, Griffin, & Ross, 1994), that is, the underestimation of the costs and efforts associated with”
• Construing Consumer Decision Making (2007, background): “Kruger and Evans (2004) demonstrated that putting future tasks into subtasks reduces the planning fallacy, or the chronic underestimation of the time to complete a task.”